The results of the 2010 OPM government-wide employee survey have been released and the results for this Agency are the same.  According to Ed O’Keefe and Joe Davidson of the Washington Post:  

“Like two years ago, the Broadcasting Board of Governors was last in all categories…”

In the first Brown Bag meeting regarding the survey results, the discussion, at the direction of IBB Deputy Director Dan Austin, revolved around the Performance Appraisal Process.  This was not a major issue according to the latest survey.  In response to the question “My performance appraisal is a fair reflection of my performance” the government-wide percentage for a positive response was 68.4%.  In this Agency the positive response rate was 66.1%.  Not that great a difference.  The meeting, with those in attendance being mostly managers and supervisors, soon degenerated into a complaint about how hard it was to remove employees using the PAR process.  That says a lot about the problems in this Agency.

It appears that Agency management is determined to ignore the real problems.  The category in which the Agency scored lowest was “leadership”.  In response to questions such as “My organization’s leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity”, the Agency’s positive responses were more than 15 points lower than the government average and the negative responses were more than 10 points higher.  The failures of the Agency’s leadership is where the focus needs to be placed.

The Partnership for Public Service uses the OPM survey to construct its “Best Places to Work” ratings.  Those ratings are expected to be released this September.

We’ll have more information on this subject as it becomes available.